Starships new and old will play important roles in 'Star Wars Rebels,' a new animated series premiering in 2014.
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY

Fans at Star Wars Celebration Europe in Essen, Germany, on Saturday received a taste of what's to come in Star Wars Rebels, a new animated series due next year that takes place before the events of the original Star Wars film. The show follows the ragtag rebellion forming to fight the Empire, which is continuing to hunt down the last of the Jedi Knights.

Dave Filoni, an executive producer on the show and a supervising director on the recent Star Wars: The Clone Wars cartoon, showed off designs and shared with fans that the Rebels will be very ...